Re: Wanted: Advice on Video Cards
I like 3dfx, fairly good performance, they provide info, opensource
drivers etc... the new ones are a bit too expensive though (up to $300),
the older models (voodoo 2) are about $100 (still good performance (for
me) but does not match newer competing cards)...
erik
Andy Bastien wrote:
>
> There are those who would have you believe that Chris Gray wrote:
> > On my home box I run Windows 98 for games and Debian(Woody) for serious
> > (non-graphics-intensive) work. I want to upgrade my video card. I'm more
> > interested in something that will be straightforward to install on both
> > platforms and will give respectable performance for a while to come. I want
> > to avoid the situation I'm in now. I have a cheap S3 Savage4 based AGP card
> > for which there is no X server in the Debian packages. I can get X servers
> > elsewhere but on exit they crash my system.
> >
> > At the moment I'm leaning toward an ATI Fury. I'd be grateful for any
> > advice, opinions, or caveats.
> >
>
> The most important single factor is going to be whether you're
> interested in a 3D card or not. If you are, the NVidia GeForce 2 cards
> are probably the best out there (although Voodoo fans will probably
> argue this point). The GeForce 2MX is the bargain version, but as far
> as price/performance goes you can't beat it at ~ $100. The GeForce
> 2GTS is the more expensive one, going for around $200. Be aware,
> though, that these require an AGP 2.0 motherboard.
>
> If you don't card about 3D, then the Millenium that was mentioned
> isn't a bad way to go if you can get your hands on one cheap, and the
> Millenium II comes in an AGP version. You can also get an NVidia
> TNT2-based card for under $50, and that has good 2D performance (AGP
> 4X, 16 MB, I think the RAMDACs are 300 Mhz). The TNT2 cards still
> have decent 3D performace, although you might find yourself limited to
> 800x600 or less in newer games and/or if you have a low-end CPU.
>
> The Matrox Millenium G400 are good if you primarily want a good 2D
> card but also want accelerated 3D. ATI's advantage seems to lie
> mostly in their hardware DVD/MPEG2 support. I really don't know if
> this is supported in their Linux drivers.
>
> The NVidia cards have a pretty good accelerated driver for XFree 4.0.1
> that you can download from NVidia's website. For 3D on XFree 3.3.6, you
> might be better off with a Voodoo card, although IMHO you'll end up
> spending more for no overall gain in peformance.
>
> Enough rambling...
>
> --
> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null
Reply to: